Protocol negotiation issue in rsync (rssh)

[Andrew Daviel]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Wayne Davison wrote:

> The problem you're encountering with rssh is a very old one where it was rejecting the use of -e combined with --server, which is not correct (the correct method is to reject any rsync command that doesn't have
> --server as the first option, and then no checking of the -e option is needed). This was pointed out to them years ago, and was fixed in various debian/red hat/etc packaged versions of rssh.  If you don't have a
> fixed version, you can find some fixed source code via those source packages. Or choose to switch to using the rrsync script.

Thanks. I did finally figure that out with help from Russ Allbery on the 
rssh mailing list who sent me a patch. I also found a posting from Derek Martin 
in http://sourceforge.net/p/rssh/mailman/message/30185240/ saying he 
"never will" support rsync 3.

rrsync may be better for a new install as it seems rssh is only getting
security fixes. That had me confused as the current version clearly 
postdates rsync 3.

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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada